Dean Baldwin win's Toronto Friends of Visual Arts' Artist Prize! Go Dean!

Press Release May 4, 2010

Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts are pleased to announce their award recipients for 2010. The TFVA has given over $ 265,000 (since 2001) to artists, projects, scholarships and in recognition of significant achievement in the visual arts. www.tfva.ca

Artist Prize----- $10,000 to DEAN BALDWIN
Dean Baldwin, works in many media: performance, sculpture, photography, video and film. He makes narrative art work out of everyday experiences such as eating, drinking, paddling a canoe, taking a shower, and sleeping. Art and life coalesce. The formal qualities of his sculpture are symbols of social interaction by means of objects, buildings, bars, steamer trunks and reconstructed bottles.

Artist Prize runner up----- $2,000 to Sara Graham
Sara Graham's development in her work over the last few years has centred on explorations of geographic fictions that involves the investigation of city systems and networks.

Artist Prize runner up----- $2,000 to Daniel Young and Christian Giroux
Young and Giroux have been working together for almost 10 years.They are sculptors addressing public and social issues that connect with the built environment. All their works are based on available forms and structures and bring us likely shapes in unlikely spaces.

Achievement Award---- $10,000 to PAUL DUVAL
Paul Duval is the author of over 20 books on Canadian art, an art critic for the Toronto Telegram(1957-1965), art editor of Saturday Night magazine (1944-1965), a founding member of the Canadian Arts Council and author of a number of catalogues for exhibitions. His constant encouragement of emerging artists, helping to write applications for grants and actual support of many artists epitomizes the spirit of this award.

Project Support---- $15,000 to PRINTOPOLIS
Printopolis is a four-day symposium (with a follow up publication), with an international focus on contemporary printmaking being presented by Open Studio in Toronto, from Oct.21-24, 2010. Printopolis will feature issue-based panel discussions/presentations, artists talks and printmaking demonstrations. The city-wide event will feature exhibitions highlighting contemporary print media works on display throughout Toronto.( www.openstudio.on.ca/printopolos.html )

Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Trust Fund---- $1,400 to the Textile Museum of Canada for a special purchase.